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CHILLING MYSTERY `BEFORE THE FROST' INVESTIGATES THE EMPTINESS INSIDE
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Henning Mankell is crime fiction's master juggler. Few of this
genre's writers few of any genre's writers have been able to
balance the ordinary and the grotesque with such literary dash and
page-turning brio.
In fact the Swedish writer himself hasn't done it as well as he
does in his latest, "Before the Frost." Here we have one new central
character, Linda Wallander, dealing with two of Mankell's
protagonists from other books, her father and veteran crime fighter,
Inspector Kurt Wal...
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The Sunday Telegraph London
; HENNING MANKELL, SWEDEN'S BEST KNOWN writer since Strindberg, is a well-preserved if dour-looking 58. In the Savoy Hotel, where we meet for lunch, a young and pretty waitress comes up to our table. 'I think, Belinda,' he says, suavely referring to her name tag, 'that I would like a glass of red
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Africa, a crime author's genre diversion
International Herald Tribune
; Alan Cowell International Herald Tribune 05-02-2006 To many English speakers Henning Mankell is probably best known as the creator of Inspector Kurt Wallander, a morose, self-loathing plainclothes officer whose dark vision of himself is matched only by the bleakness of the Swedish terrain and
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Winter Lit; For Novelist Henning Mankell, 'The End' Is Just the Beginning
The Washington Post
; ... gray-whitish hair, Mankell, 57, looks like a winter storm. He holds a news conference at the Swedish Embassy, introduces his film at the ... says. He grimaces, in fact, when asked about many things. At the news conference he is introduced by Swedish cultural counselor Peter ...
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A gloomy detective stirs up Sweden
International Herald Tribune
; Sarah Lyall International Herald Tribune 11-19-2003 Beneath its apparently ordered surface, Henning Mankell's Sweden is a place of dark crimes and vicious psychopaths, of fractured families and a fraying society. It is the sort of place where a government official could plausibly be assassinated in
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Crime novel becomes a polemic on AIDS
The Boston Globe
; Book Review Kennedy's Brain By Henning Mankell Translated, from the Swedish, by Laurie Thompson New Press, 328 pp., $26.95 It's becoming painfully clear that Henning Mankell's crime detective, Kurt Wallander, is a more interesting character than Mankell himself. At least the Mankell who's been
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